Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:56:08 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Ryan Masse <mail@max-info.net>, questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: restoring a file by inode Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105301052190.15342-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <15123.46528.613930.221896@guru.mired.org>
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Ryan Masse <mail@max-info.net> types: > > is it possible to restore a file by inode? as an example > > Sure, it's possible. Use the -m flag to restore. > > <mike > > > if the file /home/rmasse/test was removed would it be possible to restore > > the file using the inode serial 793735? > > > > > ls -lai | grep test > > 793735 -rw-r--r-- 1 rmasse wheel 0 May 28 23:50 test If the file was truncated, mike was referring to using restore(8) with -m. In other words, setting up the good old "you _do_ keep backups, don't you?" line :-) If the file was removed and recreated, there's no guarantee that the inode it uses will be the same as the old one. If the file was (say) a log file that some process still has open (but is no longer linked into any directory) you could probably use fsdb (followed by a fsck) to recreate a link to the file. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Semantic rules, OK? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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